VIII. Upon proof made to the satisfaction of the cut or justices that a person accused of any nuisance or ofence under this Ordinance, or any of the said enumerated Ordinances sin åt guilty of having procured, permitted, connived at, or continued any such nuisance or ofence, or of having neglected or refused to perform any duty cast upon him by law for the prevention or repression of the same, the said court or justices shall find the stil pers a guilty of the said nuisance or offence, and shall award against bin the penalty or other punishment to which persons guilty of the sand paisance or offence are or shall be liable. IX. This Ordinance shall be read, together with the Ordinaters enumerated in Section I, and shall be incorporated therewith. I. All summary proceedings under this Ordinance, or the said enumerated Ordinances (except proceedings under Ordinance No. S of 1556. Sections II to IX. both inclusive), may be had upon the information of any complainant: but the disposal of materiais of nuisances, of building materials, and of utensis, under Sections XVII and XIX of the last-mentioned Ordinance, shall be at the absolute discretion of the Surveyor-General. XL. The court or justices before whom any proceedings whatsoever shall be had under this Ordinance or the said enumerated Ordinances, may award costs and expenses to be paid by any ofender upon conviction, and to enforce payment thereof by aLy of the ways and means prescribed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1856 in respect of penalties. XIL All nuisances prohibited by the laws for the time being in foree within England, are equally prohibited within this elliny, and may be abated and punished according to the provisions of this Ordinance and the said enumerated Ordinances; but notwithstanding this or any other Ordinance against nuisances now in force, or hereafter to come in force, all remedies compatible therewith for the prevention, abatement, or punishment of, or the compensation for nuisances which are or shall be at any time in force within England, shall, until express provision be made to the contrary, extend to and be enforced within this colony likewise. XIII. Such of the orders and regulations of the General Board of Health established in London under authority of the Acts of Parliament for the protection of the public health, or any of them, as shall be from time to time by the Governor in Executive Council determined and noticed, with such modifications thereof respectively as his Excellency in Council shall think ft to adopt, shall for such time and to such extent, or with such modifications as shall be so notified, extend to and be enforced within this colony under the authority of this Ordinance. XIV. Nothing contained in this Ordinance, or in any of the Ordinances therewith incorporated, shall operate to the restraint or punishment of any act or thing done under lawful authority or sanctioned by the same, yet so as that in every case the proof of such lawful authority shall lie upon the person alleging the same. JOHN BOWRING. Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 12th day of June, 1856. L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils. INDEX. A. Page ACQUA. Engagement with Great Britain. Compensation. ACQUA TOWN. 2nd February, 1855. 546 544 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. River Cameroons, 14th January, 1856. 552 AFRICA (EAST COAST). Correspondence with Great Britain. Slave Trade. 1856. AFRICA (WEST COAST). Correspondence with Great Britain. Slave Trade. 850 1856. 850, 861. TREATIES, &c. between GREAT BRITAIN and NATIVE Page AFRICA (WEST COAST). TREATIES, &c. with FOREIGN POWERS continued, Old Town, 21st January, 1856. 555 See also CREEK TOWN, DUKE TOWN, OLD TOWN. ALBREDA. Convention. Great Britain and France.... London, 7th March, 1857. 36 ALIENS. Ordinance (British). Rights of Aliens to hold and transfer Pro- perty within Colony of Hong Kong. ANGOLA. Decree (Portuguese). Prohibition of Factories on Coast of Angola. Lisbon, 27th September, 1856. 943 Lisbon, 3rd November, 1856. 921 Lisbon, 5th July, 1856. 906 (Do.) Law. (Do.) |